Machine for making shredded-wheat biscuits or similar articles.



'W. E. WILLIAMS.

' MACHINE FOR MAKING SHREDDED WHEAT BISCUITS 0R SIMILAR ARTICLES.

\ APPLICATION FILED APR. 13, 1908. 1,062,627. Patented May 27, 1913.

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W. E. WILLIAMS. MACHINE FOR MAKING SHREDDED WHEAT BISCUITS 0R SIMILARARTICLES. APPLIQATION FILED APR. 13, 1908.

1 O62,627. Patented May 27, 1913.

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OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR MAKING SHREDDED-WHEAT BISCUITS OR SIMILAR ARTICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 27, 1913.

Application filed April 13, 1908. Serial No. 426,818.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, (VILLIAM ERASTUS WVILLIAS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Machines for Making Shredded-WVheat Biscuits or Similar Articles, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to convert shreds or filaments of wheat orother food stuffs into biscuits or cakes in a rapid, simple, cheap, anddesirable way, whereby any desired degree of packing down or matting ofthe shreds may be secured.

Reference will be had to the accompany-- ing drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a plan View. Fig.3 is an end section on line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is 'a longitudinal.vertical sectional View showing the material in process of operation.Fig. 5 is a detail of the belt tightener,

In the drawing 2 designates the frame of the machine which is here shownas made of angle'pieces of metal.

3 indicates a traveling carrier belt made of any suitable material or itmay be any suitable carrier. This carrier 3 receives the shredded orfilamented orother material as it comes'from any suitable source ofsupply in a continuous uniform deposit 4. This source of supply is hereshown as an additional carrier belt 5 coming from the shreddingmachines. The deposit 4 of the shreds passes underneath a roller 6 whichpushes the deposit down to any desired thickness or hardness. The roller6 is carried in bearings 7 carried upon a frame 8 pivoted at 9 to the 4frame of the machine, and is adjusted downward by thumb-screws 10, andis held upward by springs 11. After passing roller 6 the deposit iscrushed 'or matted down into a mat 12 the desired thickness for thebiscuit 45 or cracker and the mat then passes underneath a slittingroller 13 which cuts the mat into strips longitudinally. And thesestrips then passunderneath a cross cutting roller 14 which cuts themtransversely and the biscuits 0r crackers are then taken up by a peelerand they pass off automatically on to suitable pans arranged to receivethem. Underneath each cutting roller 13 and 14 there is arranged anabutting roller 15 and 55 16 to receive the thrust of the cutting andthe carrier 3 passes between the rollers along with the material to becut.

The cutting rollers 13 and 14 are mounted in bearings mounted upon bars18 adjustable to the frame by studs 19 and the rolls 15 and 16 aresimilarly mounted.

The machine is driven from any suitable source of power by a belt 20 ona wheel 21 on a shaft 22 mounted on posts of frame 2 and carrying apinion 23 engaging a gear wheel 24 mounted on a shaft 25 which alsocarries a sprocket 26 driving a chain 27 driving a sprocket 28 on shaft29 of transverse cutting roll 14. A gear 30 on shaft 29 engages a gear31 on shaft 32 which is the shaft of roll 16 whereby abutting roll 16 ismade to travel in time with its cutter roll 14. An idle'gear 33 engagesgear 30 and is driven thereby and it engages 34 on shaft 35 which is theshaftof slitting roll 13 whereby, slitting roll 13 is positively driven.(rear 34 engages and drives gear 36 on shaft 37 whereby roll 15 is.driven. A sprocket 38 on shaft 37 drives a chain 39 which drives asprocket 40 on shaft 41 of roller 42 over which carrier belt 3 travelsand whereby it is driven. The source of supply belt 5 passes over aroller 44 on a shaft 45 driven by a belt wheel 46 driven by a belt 47from any suitable source of power. Fenders 48 are mounted at the sidesof belt or carrier 3 to direct the discharge from belt 5 upon belt 3within definite side limits which saves waste of the material actedupon. Carrier 3 passes over a small roller 43 at its outer end whichroller is mounted in bearings 49 mounted to slide longitudinally in the.frame and held by springs 50 to exert an elastic stretch or take up tocarrier belt 3. Springs 50 are adjusted by nuts 51 on rods 52 secured tothe bearings 49. Compression roller 6 is driven by a belt wheel 53driven by a belt 54 driven by a wheel 55 on shaft 29 of roller 14. Allof the revolving parts are what are termed live rolls which insure apositive action and does not distort the material acted upon which is adesideratum.

Underneath carrier belt 3 there are provided plates or tables 59, whichsupport the carrier underneath the compression roller and also at otherpoints save only where the cutting rollers require apertures for theiradmission to contact with the carrier belt.

The cutting roller 14 isvmade of longitudinal slats 56 secured at theirends to disks 57, and supported at frequent intervals by intermediatedisks 58 which construction allows cutter blades to be used and yetproduce a rigid cutter roller and one cheaply constructed.

The web or mat of material is very fragile and is also moreor lesssticky and cannotbe cut properly by the ordinary mechanisms used in thebakers art. The separate cuttingroller arranged to act on the mat atdifferent points insures against the mat curling up and following thecutter or from being distorted as is the case when ordinary cuttingmeans are .used.

What I claim is:

1. In apparatus of the. class described, the combination with a tableprovided with narrow transverse slots, of an endless belt arranged tohave one of its folds travel along the surface of the table over saidslots, vertically adjustable rollers arranged to rotate in said' slots,respectively, below the belt, cutting rollers mounted above the belt inregistry with the rollers below the belt, re-

spectively, to divide into separate masses the material passing on thebelt, and means for delivering a continuous mass of shreds upon thebelt.

2. In a machine of the class described the combination of a longitudinalframe supporting sections of a table or flat plates, a carrier beltmoving over these tables or plate apertures in these tables or plates,cutting rollers mounted at these apertures to act on the material onthe-carrier, with a compres sion roll mounted to act upon the materialof the carrier at a point ,Where the carrier is supported by a plate ortable.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name at the city ofChicago, on this 16th day of March, 1908 in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM ERASTUS WILLIAMS.

\Vitnesses R.- RorER, JOHN GRANT.

